Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

JonnyBravo

sss555s wrote: »

Hey nice peeps :hello:

Any of you music lovers?

Anyways, this was one i remember when i was wee, that my mum had, it may have been on an album but i liked this track at the time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq2icw50Pe4

I know it's desperately "uncool" but they are my favourite band.... of all time!
I've been to see "The Orchestra" many times over the last few years and it was so when Kelly died. "Midnight Blue" had become his signature song when playing with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwBGBElJcuo

vivatifosi

sss555s wrote: »

I like a broad range too. Anything except sad love songs.

Funny you should say that. Two of the songs we played last night were "The Power of Love" by Jennifer Rush and "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles. Both of which give me the urge to chuck my stereo equipment into the local river. I don't dislike all love songs so didn't think to add that as a category but I don't like power balads and Eternal Flame is just so whiny.

sss555s

I like the FGTH version of the power of love best.

Yeah my favs are Led Zep and GnR

Here is another good one for the nice peeps...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_YjM4V4fc

:beer:

vivatifosi

Out of interest, who has got their heating on? I'm trying to hold out until November before putting mine on for no better reason than I'm bloody-minded. We still had heating on in May and I don't like the thought of using it for so many months, it just seems wrong. However I've just checked the thermostat and its 17 degrees in here and I'm wearing fleece. Not good.

sss555s

My heating has been on quite a bit the past few days but i just run it by thermostat.

It felt winter like here on Thursday, brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

JonnyBravo

vivatifosi wrote: »

Out of interest, who has got their heating on?

No chance!
The Mrs hasn't even moaned yet. She'll be first, then it'll be an awkward few weeks where I'll be too hot and she'll be too cold.

michaels

Normally we run ours 365 on the thermostat until sometime in the summer when it comes on with cold mornings and then the house overheats in the day. WE would definitely have it on now if it was connected, instead we are using a strategically placed electric radiator and trying to stop the draft from the new windowless section (hence the crash in the night of a couple of days ago. Builder is fitting an internal door today so we can close the doors to the windowless room and I think in theory the new boiler is almost good to go. DW has a very stiff back which she thinks is from the cold a couple of nights ago.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

Normally we run ours 365 on the thermostat until sometime in the summer when it comes on with cold mornings and then the house overheats in the day. WE would definitely have it on now if it was connected, instead we are using a strategically placed electric radiator and trying to stop the draft from the new windowless section (hence the crash in the night of a couple of days ago. Builder is fitting an internal door today so we can close the doors to the windowless room and I think in theory the new boiler is almost good to go. DW has a very stiff back which she thinks is from the cold a couple of nights ago.

Brrrrr.... I hope mrsmichaels's back gets better soon. It looks like it will warm up round here over the next couple of days.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Normally we run ours 365 on the thermostat until sometime in the summer when it comes on with cold mornings and then the house overheats in the day. WE would definitely have it on now if it was connected, instead we are using a strategically placed electric radiator and trying to stop the draft from the new windowless section (hence the crash in the night of a couple of days ago. Builder is fitting an internal door today so we can close the doors to the windowless room and I think in theory the new boiler is almost good to go. DW has a very stiff back which she thinks is from the cold a couple of nights ago.

Much the same strategy here. And I have the thermostat quite high, too. Well, actually I turn it up and down depending on how I'm feeling. As soon as I'm ill or tired I start to feel cold and the thermostat goes up. Then when I'm healthy and rested I feel hot and it comes back down again. One of the few advantages of being the only adult in the house is that I don't have to negotiate thermostat settings with anyone!

I grew up in a very cold house - think frost on the inside of the bedroom windows etc - and reacted by spending the winter months on the hearthrug in front of the gas fire. I did everything down there - homework, listening to music, reading. I have happy memories of sharing that hearthrug with my godmother's exceedingly lazy Jack Russell, who lived with us for a few years. She loved basking in front of the fire, and was quite happy for me to use her as a pillow when lying down reading. She was the right size for it too, but the digestive gurgling noises took a little getting used to.

So as an adult I have rebelled against the cold house of my youth, and I like my house warm. I'm happy to invest in more efficient heating, better insulation etc, but turning the thermostat down is one kind of austerity measure that I'm not prepared to consider. Almost everyone has at least one area of non-negotiable extravagance - gelled nails or live music gigs or whatever - and a warm house is mine.

michaels

Lydia you and I are the same on this one - also grew up with ice on the inside of the windows on cold mornings and also now choose to keep house warm - strangely (imo) my sisters at least also have cold houses. With the extension most of the house is to latest insulation standards and although the rest of the house was built in the 30s it has cavity walls so once those are insulated we will be pretty energy efficient and with my super posh German modulating condensing boiler with weather compensation controls I am hoping that 17 at night 21 by day will not be too expensive to achieve.